"Alfred M. Szmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] IIRC RMS ran Debian GNU/Linux (I > don't know if he still does) as this was the most Free distribution > at the time. > > RMS never recommended Debian to people.
Firstly, that's contradicting a point that wasn't made: Gareth Bowker (I think - still ams fails to attribute quotes) doesn't say that he did. Secondly, there are many interviews and reports which say RMS used to recommend Debian (try a web search... for one example result, http://beust.com/stallman.html). However, I know reporters sometimes make mistakes and it's not impossible that there could be so many. > [...] it is another > thing that a organisation or even a person, supposedly promoting free > software, starts distributing non-free software to its members/friends [...] It was some time ago that FSF started distributing non-free-software manuals to people. I also expect that FSF has often distribued machines to developers that currently require non-free software, in the hope that it helps to develop free software for them. I don't see a fundamental problem in that, but maybe including such development platforms as raffle prizes is a bit silly, and maybe the swpat-fans Nokia have made a platform which will never be free. Conversely, maybe it's time for those who want to work on replacing non-free software to join the debian project, who don't *distribute* non-free software but merely host it and are actively working to free or replace it. Regards, -- MJ Ray - see/vidu http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Webmaster/web developer, statistician, sysadmin, online shop maker, developer of koha, debian, gobo, gnustep, various mail and web s/w. Workers co-op @ Weston-super-Mare, Somerset http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
